Family:Moses Stevens and Sarah Beckford (1)

Research Notes

• possible additional children buried in Nashville City Cemetery (same as Moses):
  • William Henry Stevens (1818-1843)
  • Sara B Stevens (1827-1839)
  • John B Stevens (1827-1855)
  • John B Stevens (1833-1857)

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Waters, Henry F.. Notes on the Townsend family: compiled by Henry F. Waters. (Salem, Mass.: Printed for the Essex Institute, 1883)
   p 28.

   ...Mrs. Sarah, widow of Capt. Jonathan Beckford and daughter of Samuel and Sally (Ring) Cheever, ... By Capt. Beckford she had a daughter Sarah who was married to Moses Stevens, esq., of Andover, and afterwards of Nashville, Tennessee. Three of Mrs. Stevens' children are still living, viz., the widow of Professor Lindsley, in Tennessee, the wife of Mr. Henry D. Johnson, and the widow of Mr. William Henry Emmerton, both in Salem. ...

2. ↑ Family Recorded, in Rootsweb.

   http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BICKFORD/2006-05/1148101418
   
   ... Salem, MA Vital Records, V. 5 (Same film no. as above [FHL
   0761209])
   Marriages in the South Society, copied from the record book of Rev. Doct.
   Daniel Hopkins, lent by Rev. Brown Emerson, his successor to Benjamin R.
   Nichols, Town Clerk, Aug. 1815, Salem:
   ... Moses Stevens to Sally Beckford, Oct. 20, 1816 by Rev. Wm. Bentley. ...